Many Organizations Are Vulnerable to Encrypted Attacks, And the Probability Of Being Be a Victim of Such An Attack Is Increasing...

In 2012, we saw a significant rise in the amount of application level attacks and especially encrypted attacks over HTTPS. Many of the online organizations run the majority of their online services over encrypted traffic; services such as Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and many online financial services are available only over HTTPS. Therefore, handling security threats that are carried over encrypted traffic becomes an immediate challenge for almost any company or organization that offers online services.

So, should we be afraid or be concerned? To answer that lets first look at the datacenter network topology and attack threat landscape: